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Fan-Art – Anxious Co-Workers [by Necrobatty]

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Comic updates are being halted until AUGUST 28TH (the (which’ll be the week of the 8th anniversary!) so I can refill the queue for the ending, so enjoy these FAN-ART PIECES in the meantime!

Our first fan-art pieces come to us from Necrobatty! She’s the creator of the retail webcomic Honestly Not a Robot, which I find all too reliable as someone in retail. She picked up my comic recently and has been a delight about it. She’s ALSO a fellow Emma #EmmaSolidarity. Oh yeah if you didn’t know, I’m going by Emma now by the way.

ANYWAY she drew the core Chapter 1 cast and did an INCREDIBLE job with the expressions. And her stylization of them all is so impressive too. I could just as easily see the whole comic in her style!

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Backup is on the way!

Quick note, there’s going to be a short month-long hiatus from posting comic pages while I work to make sure I’ll be able to fill out the queue for the end of the chapter (which’ll end on Intermission page 225)! I’ll be posting some fan-art pieces in the meantime before we get back to regular updates on AUGUST 28TH

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This was my favorite scene of this chapter to write. Leon managed to rhetorically bulldoze over Trinity and Luca, but Ms Shepard is proving herself a pretty equal match for him. And also, she’s scary as all heck.

Again regarding worldbuilding, I did want to keep things a little vague for the setting so readers could imagine a lot of how this world functions. The concept of governance is already a complicated subject in solarpunk circles, with the spectrum of ideals ranging from a kind of communal anarchy to a united communist world-government. And that’s really cool!

At least for this setting, given that this is still an Earth dealing with a population still in the billions, one that not only has various unique home-grown world cultures to deal with, but ALSO various alien peoples that have settled onto it, there ARE some kinds of government structures in place. Likely still various different ones, though certainly more out of a respect for self-governance and representation than hard-line jingoism. The exact functions and “look” of this I leave more up to the reader, as it’s not directly important to the wider narrative.

One worry I had here, though, is that Ms Shepard may give the impression of the future’s governments being corrupt and/or inefficient. I also leave it up to the reader how Ms Shepard feels about those institutions, but realistically, her assessment here is more-or-less a statement of facts. If you were a part of these systems and some random teenager told you time travel was real and to arrest some random women (particularly with little meaningful evidence), you probably aren’t going to immediately act on that. Even in a setting that’s had alien invasions and zombie outbreaks, that’s still gonna warrant at least SOME skepticism.

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I’ve been relatively loose with various aspects of worldbuilding in this future. I didn’t want to set too much in stone so that readers – especially ones imagining a better solarpunk future – could project various ideas onto it that they think would be good fits.

Nevertheless, I did want to contribute some concrete ideas. One of those is the concept of Health and Safety teams. They are indeed NOT cops. They aren’t armed with any kind of lethal or even potentially lethal arms. They are likely elected or in some ways selected BY the communities they serve specifically to focus on providing guidance and aid during emergencies, or general structure and safety checks during calm periods. These are positions that require RIGOROUS education and training. Many groups have a specifically-trained Health and Safety Team on-staff for their own needs; Abigail and her two allies are actually part of Foundation B’s. Their normal duties are just to monitor the functions of the cave, as well as checking for potential hazards. It’s also technically a part of their duties to handle/escort out intruders, but that usually just comes up in the form of people who accidentally go to the wrong floor of the elevator into FB.

So TL;DR – Health and Safety teams aren’t cops. Depending on who they’re working with, they’re closer to medics, maintenance teams, and OSHA rolled into one. Some DO specialize in handling violent situations, but they’re not armed with anything even potentially lethal and going for anything aggressive before exhausting EVERY de-escalation technique in the book is grounds for immediate termination and/or criminal investigation.

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Foundation B stores a huge variety of historical artifacts, even and especially things we might not consider to be “historically relevant.” Even the most random item from a different time period can give a sense of how past people lived in ways we might not immediately suspect. That said, you may be wondering why this relic storage chamber is covered in socks, as that doesn’t seem like a wise method of preserving them.

And I’m here to say. I have no flippin’ clue either. Anyway, nice try, Luca!